# A Sandwich **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 10, 2005, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sandwich/284032 "2005-01-10T12:21:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sandwich/284032/161 "2005-01-13T13:43:59Z")
Susan, RE the chipotle mac & cheese, you didn’t happen to watch The Gilmore Girls on ABC Family recently, did ya? ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sandwich/284032/162 "2005-01-13T14:08:56Z")
> [@welby](#): > > It’s usually at the deli counter. I see it there each week and want to smash it all. **Addendum To Life Goals** Go grocery shopping with **welby**. It should be fun. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sandwich/284032/163 "2005-01-13T14:25:07Z")
> [@swampbear](#): > > **FCM and Taters** are **T** racking **D** own **Y** etis. Apparently they retire in Phoenix and that’s why **Taters** has to go there next week. You’ve got it wrong. The acronym stands for **T** otally **D** omesticated **Y** aks. Which makes sense because **FCM** did say it was about training, after all. Why the Navy needs domesticated yaks, I don’t know. ---
**Author:** ![Taters](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/taters/32/2845_2.png) [@Taters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taters)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sandwich/284032/164 "2005-01-13T15:11:25Z")
TDY does indeed stand for Temporary Duty. However, I like all of your definitions better. I first discovered Nutella back in 1980 when my visiting relatives brought it from Germany. My then five year old cousin loved it to death. I didn’t like it even then. I see it in the grocery stores around here, usually around the peanut butter and jelly selections. I avoid it like the plague. Well, need to start the work day. ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sandwich/284032/165 "2005-01-13T15:26:58Z")
> [@welby](#): > > It’s usually at the deli counter. I see it there each week and want to smash it all. I pick on you way too much, buddy. We are, after all, kindred spirits. ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sandwich/284032/166 "2005-01-13T15:36:02Z")
> [@Taters](#): > > I didn’t like it even then. How can you not like something with a hazelnut flavor? I luurve hazelnut. Espectially the hazelnut flavored [Loacker Quadratini](http://www.loacker.it/en_w_quadratini.html#goto). Oh god those are addictive. A long time ago, soon after I graduated from college, I was a newspaper reporter. I was interviewing some guy at the local community college for some story I was working on. When I got to his office he offered me some coffee. Naturally I took it. It was hazelnut flavored coffee. It was the first time I’d ever had flavored coffee or hazelnut flavored anything. Now back then I hadn’t realized I was gay and was still somewhat homophobic, a result of growing up in a Pentecostal church. My first reaction was that only gay men drink flavored coffee, so he must be gay. Conversely, since I “wasn’t” gay, I could not like it. But I did like it. That cup of flavored coffee really caused me cognitive dissonance. Later, I had to finally admit that I liked hazelnut flavored coffee. Even later, I had to accept that _I_ am gay. So now I believe that drinking hazelnut flavored coffee turns a man gay. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sandwich/284032/167 "2005-01-13T15:55:37Z")
> [@Taters](#): > > I first discovered Nutella back in 1980 when my visiting relatives brought it from Germany. My then five year old cousin loved it to death. I didn’t like it even then. Nutella : Europeans :: Peanut Butter : Americans It’s not the hazelnut aspect that most folks find offensive, IMO, it’s more that the stuff is gawdawful rich. I find it okay in very small doses. My kids like it because they were subjected to it when they were young. Did you ever notice that you can eat some of the most offensive stuff if you ate it as a kid? Banana/mayo sandwitches would be a prime example… chances are if you _didn’t_ eat that as a kid (or PB/banana) then you _won’t_ eat it as a growed up. There’s lots of Thai foods that Mrs. Shibb could scarf down that I probably wouldn’t eat on a dare. Fish stomach soup, for one. ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sandwich/284032/168 "2005-01-13T16:04:48Z")
Companies I really hate at this particular moment: Verizon Verizon Wireless Time Warner Cable Superior Waste Disposal Citibank General Electric Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation New York State Electric and Gas (for a different reason than I hate NiMo) Proctor and Gamble Microsoft Apple IBM Sprint/AT&T/MCI or whothehellever it was General Motors Bell Canada or whatever the hell it’s called Krispy Kreme Dunkin’ Donuts Certain firms that are limited liabilty partnerships but I’m not going to name names because of what they do for a living. You know what I mean. Exxon-Mobil The State of New York (not a company, per se, but just _damn_) The bodega on Madison Avenue between Phillips and Grand KFC Popeye’s General Elecric, again Lockheed Martin Boeing The United States Navy (see: State of New York) That website that sells wedding dresses that suck The company that made the Red Sox jersey I gave my niece Starbucks If I didn’t mention you, rest assured you’re in my thoughts. ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sandwich/284032/169 "2005-01-13T16:09:05Z")
What did Popeye’s do? How can you be made at the maker of the best fast-food spicy fried chicken and red beans and rice to be had outside Louisiana? ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sandwich/284032/170 "2005-01-13T16:22:04Z")
> [@Exgineer](#): > > Companies I really hate at this particular moment: > … > Proctor and Gamble > … > If I didn’t mention you, rest assured you’re in my thoughts. Wow, is your picture in the dictionary next to “irascible”? 🙂 I may have used to work for this one Cincy based company, and still own some small amount of their stock. Maybe I can help you out with this one via my connections? ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sandwich/284032/171 "2005-01-13T16:22:37Z")
When they finally got around to opening a store around here thay put it on Hoosick Street in the misbegotten bastard whore of a city that is Troy. ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sandwich/284032/172 "2005-01-13T16:24:54Z")
That last reply was for **Homebrew** , obviously. Nothing serious, **Shibb** ; I just got some shampoo in my eyes this morning. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sandwich/284032/173 "2005-01-13T16:28:43Z")
This one is called, **Pick Shibb’s Lunch**. Here are the choices: [ul] [li]A hot Italian sub from Frankie’s deli.[/li][li]Pad Thai[/li][li]Quizno’s (probably a spicy Monterrey sub)[/li][li]BBQ Beef brisket cooked in a big smoker down the street[/li][li]Some kind of burrito[/li][li]Garlic Chicken from the Chinese place[/li][li]Any other suggestions - try and be creative.[/li][/ul] But hurry, I’m getting hungry and I need to stop by the bank. - Shibb, who’s had an extra cup of coffee today. _bounce_ ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sandwich/284032/174 "2005-01-13T16:28:54Z")
> [@Exgineer](#): > > When they finally got around to opening a store around here thay put it on Hoosick Street in the misbegotten bastard whore of a city that is Troy. Ahh, you have to drive too far. I understand that. Fortunately for me there is one less than a mile from my house. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sandwich/284032/175 "2005-01-13T16:32:19Z")
> [@Exgineer](#): > > Nothing serious, **Shibb** ; I just got some shampoo in my eyes this morning. _ **Los Bastardos!!** _ That’s it, I’m divesting! Oh, and it’s Proct **e** r & Gamble. You know those Germans can’t spell anything right. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sandwich/284032/176 "2005-01-13T16:44:27Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > You’ve got it wrong. The acronym stands for **T** otally **D** omesticated **Y** aks. Which makes sense because **FCM** did say it was about training, after all. > > Why the Navy needs domesticated yaks, I don’t know. Sammiches of course! The domesticated ones hold still better when you try to cover them with mayonaisse. Anyone for a YLT? How about Yak on a Shingle? … er … Okay, maybe not. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sandwich/284032/177 "2005-01-13T16:43:07Z")
**Shibb** Chinese of course. That way I can \ at your fortune. ---
**Author:** ![susan\_foster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@susan\_foster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan_foster)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sandwich/284032/178 "2005-01-13T16:51:32Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > This one is called, **Pick Shibb’s Lunch**. Here are the choices: > > [ul] > [li]A hot Italian sub from Frankie’s deli.[/li][li]Pad Thai[/li][li]Quizno’s (probably a spicy Monterrey sub)[/li][li]BBQ Beef brisket cooked in a big smoker down the street[/li][li]Some kind of burrito[/li][li]Garlic Chicken from the Chinese place[/li][li]Any other suggestions - try and be creative.[/li][/ul] > > But hurry, I’m getting hungry and I need to stop by the bank. > > - Shibb, who’s had an extra cup of coffee today. _bounce_ I vote - Pad Thai. Susan ---
**Author:** ![Wintermute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@Wintermute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wintermute)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sandwich/284032/179 "2005-01-13T17:03:51Z")
> [@Exgineer](#): > > Companies I really hate at this particular moment: \ Wow, _some_body’s cranky today. Do you need a nap? Your head rubbed? Tell me how to make it better. > [@Homebrew](#): > > So now I believe that drinking hazelnut flavored coffee turns a man gay. Hmm. I’ll have to warn my sister. She loves hazelnut coffe and got two pounds of it for Christmas from a co-worker. She, her husband and I have been enjoying it on the weekends. Guess he doesn’t get anymore! Myself, I don’t really like hazelnut anything. I’ll drink the coffee if that’s all that’s around (flavored coffee is better than no coffee), but really prefer unflavored coffee, if it’s good. And I can’t stand Nutella. Hey, one more thing to add to my list of foods I don’t like. Maybe if I make the list long enough, I can be as svelte as **Susan**! Right now, I like more foods then I dislike, and it shows. Oh, yeah, and YAY!! \*\*Welby’s \*\* back! 😃 > [@ShibbOleth](#): > > This one is called, **Pick Shibb’s Lunch**. Here are the choices: > > [ul] > [li]A hot Italian sub from Frankie’s deli.[/li][li]Pad Thai[/li][li]Quizno’s (probably a spicy Monterrey sub)[/li][li]BBQ Beef brisket cooked in a big smoker down the street[/li][li]Some kind of burrito[/li][li]Garlic Chicken from the Chinese place[/li][li]Any other suggestions - try and be creative.[/li][/ul] > > But hurry, I’m getting hungry and I need to stop by the bank. > > - Shibb, who’s had an extra cup of coffee today. _bounce_ Gee, that BBQ sounds good to me. Can you get a good BBQ sandwich with coleslaw? Yum! ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2005, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sandwich/284032/180 "2005-01-13T17:05:13Z")
The Chinese food fortunes are in red. The Thai food fortunes are in green. This is their convention, not mine. Don’t know why, but so far it’s held true. So I could get Pad Thai _and_ a fortune, but I’m not positive that the place I’m thinking of going has fortune cookies (most Thai places don’t). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sandwich/284032.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sandwich/284032.md?page=10)